Finally, after 9 innings of high-intensity baseball, the second game of this Subway series weekend gave us a classic Power vs. Power confrontation, Edwin Diaz VS. Judge Aaron, With the emergence of the game.
Or AS Carlos Mendoza Say, “That’s the showdown you give.”
It turned out to be a game, confirming the important point for the Mets: That said, his best part is that Diaz still dominates like anyone in the ninth inning because he proved to be the last hitter of the game by winning seven games with the judge.
Indeed, Diaz drew the fastball to 100 mph on a five-pointer and ended up dialing 98 on his shoulders to strike out with a full swing strikeout to beat the Bronx’s Yankees 3-2.
“That’s fun,” Diaz said with a smile in the metropolitan club. "I feel like I can make the game, and I'm still very happy."
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This seems even more important, as Diaz has some shaky moments this season. He is now 10-10 in saving, but at the beginning of the season he struggled under fastball command and his speed has also sometimes dropped.
On Saturday, Diaz Jeremy Hefner He thinks it is paying off now.
"At the end of April, I repaired a few things with a mechanic," he said. "My fastball missed a lot on the side of my arm and we tried to get me to throw it straight to the batsman."
Soon, he began to see the fastball results, directing well to make his slider more effective. Diaz said it made him feel completely confident again.
"Now I'm doing everything I want to do," he said.
It looks like this, especially for judges. Diaz took a 0-2 lead with a good slider and then tried to get the judge to bite a slider or two on the plate because the count was 2-2.
At that time, he raised the fastball to 100, and the judge could not catch up and was fouled. When the judge did not bite 2-2 sliding balls, Diaz decided he would challenge him again with the fastball.
Just not reckless.
The judge may have had a tough day, strike out with three-pointers and scored 5-5, but he is still the best and most dangerous hitter in baseball, and Diaz is clear.
"I'm going to go up with the fastball," he said. "I don't make mistakes in the area throughout the bat. If I miss the position, I'll make sure I missed the area."
"Is he better walking than giving up the bomb?" I asked Diaz.
"I won't give up on the bomb," he said with a smile. "I'm doing pitching. If I'm not swaying (out of the area), I'm facing each other (Cody) Bellinger. ”
Maybe on another day the judge will play 3-2, and indeed Diaz will have to bring Bellinger to the final. To be sure, the judge doesn't look like himself, but to praise the Mets for being strong and aggressive in pitching him, especially the starter Canned Griffinhe won the judge in the first three times, routinely escaped, strikeouts out and weak ground balls to third.
This year, the team often pays a heavy price for being bold with the judge, which even reached .402 even after 5-5. But on this day, the Mets told him alively and did not back down.
"We know how good the judgment is," said Mendoza, former Yankees substitute coach. "But our guys did a great job of attacking him and we got the results."
In many ways, it's the difference between a carefully challenged game, with important games on both sides, just like the crazy atmosphere of the playoffs.
"It was a major league game," Mendoza said.
After two consecutive losses and most of the futility of a week, the Mets need to win. Most importantly, after they have recently struggled with scoring positions for all runners, they need someone to give birth in the clutch.
It turns out to be Francisco Lindor The Mets rally broke 2-2 territory for the ninth time. Facing relief workers Fernando Cruz, They were walking to Luis Torrens Brett Baty, and a collision Tyrone Taylor.
Lindor has come to RISP position, and Mendoza said before Saturday’s game that he feels his players are usually chasing too much in Friday night’s match against the Yankees.
"We have to change that," Mendoza said.
Lin Duo must have been listening. He was patient with the count 3-0 and then after a strike, he passed a fly ball in a good situational way to bring the fly ball to the left center, which scored as pinch-runner Luisangel Acuña Run.
The rest is Diaz. Three games later, he ended with the judge in a grand manner, giving the Metropolis reasons that they remain one of the best close players in baseball.